Lantern-holder.



PATBNTBD SEPT. 29, 19.03.

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; UNITED STATES Patented. September 29, 1903.

WALTER L. FERGUSON, OB MARQUETTE, KANSAS.

LANTERN-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 740,1l3, dated September 29, 1903.

Application filed March a, 1903.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER L. FERGUSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Marquette, in the county of McPherson and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lantern-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to lantern-holders, and pertains particularly to a wagon lanternholder of special design adapted to be applied to the end of a wagon tongue or pole.

The object of the invention is to provide a device to flexibly hold a lantern of ordinary type to a wagon tongue or pole and admit of the lantern being placed and removed without adjusting or removing the holder from the tongue.

A further object of the invention is to provide a lantern-holder having peculiar springarms terminating in tips and a pole ring or socket carried by lateral projections of the arms.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this application, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the application of the holder. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the holder, showing one of the arms unhooked. Fig. 3 is a rear view of the holder.

The same numeral references denote the same parts throughout the Views of the drawings.

The lantern shown is of ordinary construction, except the back 1 thereof has an upper opening orape'rture2 therethrough, and like openings 3 are made through the lower portion thereof. I

The lantern-holder has a stem 4, provided with a sleeve or ring 5, having a set-screw 6, whereby the holder is secured to the front end of a wagon tongue or pole 7, or said stem may be made in the form of a socket or sleeve and the ring dispensed with. Lateral.

projections 8 diverge from the front end of the stem 5, and at the intersection of the said projections and the stem is formed an upwardly-turned hook 9 to engage the upper Serial No. 146,574. (No model.)

opening 2 of the lantern-back. Spring-arms 10 are bowed from the projections 8 and terminate in downwardly-turned lips 11, which engage the lower openings 3 in the lanternback.

It is obvious that after the holder is once fixed to a tongue or pole the lantern may be hung to the holder by hooking it over the hook 9 and compressing the spring-bows so as to insert the lips in the opening 3. To

.remove the lantern, the bows are compressed to lift the lips out of their openings, and the hook 9 is withdrawn.

It will be seen that the holder while capable of adjustment on the pole is not disturbed in placing and removing the lantern.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A lantern-holder comprisinga stem having lateral projections, an upturned hook, spring-arms terminating in lips, and means for securing the holder, said lips and hook adapted to engage cooperating parts of the lantern. v

2. The combination, with a lantern having upper and lowerapertures, of a holder having a hook to engage the upper aperture, springarms terminating in lips to engage the lower apertures, and means for securing the holder.

3. The combination with a lantern having an upper opening, and lower openings, of a holder having a stem,lateral projections from the stem, an upturned hook at the intersection of the stem and projections to engage the upper opening, springarms extending from the projections and terminating in downwardly-turned lips to engage the lower openings, and means to secure the holder to a wagon tongue or pole.

In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

WALTER L. FERGUSON. Witnesses:

O. E. HAWKINSON, G. W. ECKER. 

